Improvement in lanterns for marine telegraphs



y Moonen ELLIOT. Lantern for Marine Telegraph.

WNO- 35,1322; i y. y 4 Patented 26,1862

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JOHN. lV. VMOOREAD IILLIAM H. ELLIOT, OF PLATTSBURG, NET YORK.

`IMPROVEMENT IN LANTERNS FOR MARINE TELEGRAPHS.

Specication forming part of Letters PatentiNo. 35,322, dated May 20, 1862.

.b all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN W'. MOORE and W. H. ELLIOT, of Plattsburg, in the county of Clinton and State of New York, have in! vented anew and Improved Marine-Telegraph Lantern; and we do hereby declare vthat the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters 'of reference marked thereon. s

Similar letters of reference indicate the same devices in all the figures.

To enable others skilled in the arts to make and use our invention, we will proceed to de scribe its nature, construction, and operation.

The nature of our inventionconsists in the employment of several colored glasses with one light, so arranged in relation to the reflectors and the other portions -of the lantern that the lantern may be made to produce lights of several different and distinct colors in any required order.

ct represents the outer case or shell of the i lantern; revolving' portion of the lantern;

c, lamp for producing the light; d, chimney; e, cap of the same; j', openings in the outer case 'for the draft; g, opening in the side of the chimney-cap for the saine purpose; h, bonnet around the opening j in the outer case; i', spring attached to the inner or revolving lantern b, by which it is revolved; la, notches upon the outer case, into 4which spring c' falls, so as to hold the lantern in any desired posi* tion; m mm, red, white, and blue lights of glass; n n n, reflectors placed between the lights of glass; o, spring-catches for holding the lamp in the lantern.

The object of this invention is to combine in one lantern the necessary means of making several different-colored lights -i'or marinetelegraphing, in such a manner that a communication may be made with greater facility and accuracy than can be done with several lanterns each producing only a single color.

' We produce by our improved lantern lights oi' the necessary colors, by bringing before the opening j several lights of glass of diierent colors-z'. e., when we wish to produce a red light, we revolve the lantern so as to bring-a red glass into the`v opening j, when the lantern will exhibit a red light, and to produce a blue or white light we bring a blueor white glass into that opening.

In use the outer case, lamp, chimney, and chimney-cap remain stationary, while the colored glass and the reflectors are caused to revolve by means of spring i, so as to bring the colored glasses in the order in which they are required into the opening j, which is turned toward the party receiving the telegram. Opposite to each glass in the revolving lantern there is a reflector, so' that when one of the Vglasses is brought before the opening one of the reflectors will be ,brought exactly opposite to it, as may beA seen by reference to Figure 2, which is a horizontal section of our improved lantern. It may also be seen that the inner or revolving portion of our improved lantern is divided into siX nearly equal spaces, three of which are iilled with glass of different colors and three with the reiiectors or some other opaque substance arranged alternately with the colored glasses, and as this portion ot' the lantern revolves before openingj, which is about the size of the spaces, it is clear that at'ter one coloredk glass has been shown and before another can be seen the opening j must be completely closedV by an intervening opaque division. By this arrangement of these devices it is impossible to blend the colors by showing two at the same time. l

The bonnet It is made to project so far from the lantern that the light cannot be seen, eX- cept in the direction in which the opening is turned, so that the :fact that a telegram was being sent could not be known by an enemy unless he was directly before the lantern.

- By revolving the lamp within the lantern the chimney and its cap may be turned around, so as to bring the opening g in the cap to the leeward side of the lantern, by which means the draft of the lamp is protected from the wind, which may blow through the openings f upon the Windward side.

This lantern may be provided with a handle' attached to the outer shell in any convenient position, if desired.

p Fig. l is a vertical section of our improved m and reieetors n in the revolving lantern b, lantern, and Fig. 4 is a plan of the same. as and for the purpose specified.

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the el1i1nney-cap- T T l'laving fully described our invention, what we Claim, and wish io have secured to us by Letters Patent, is- \Vit11esses for Moore: l. The alternate arrangement of the colored T. XV. MOORE, glasses m with the opaque divisions n, when J. A. BUCHANAN. these are employed with opening j in the \Vi111esses for Elliot: outer shell, a, as and for the purpose specified. i SEWARD MERRY,

2. The alternate arrangement of the glasses i Z. l. VHITE. 

